News: conferences, events and seminars
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Latest events. . .
A Modern Bill of Rights?: online JUSTICE members' event
Too Big to Convict? Corporate criminal liability – challenges and solutions, online hosted by University of Derby: call for papers
The Future of Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Book launch, online hosted by University of Essex
The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia, online from Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Problematising Children’s Rights – Insights from Israel/Palestine, online from University of Oxford
Legal Aid Without Lawyers: How Boston’s nonlawyers delivered and shaped justice for the poor, 1878–1922: online from Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Finding the True Convert: Tensions between church and state in asylum appeal hearings based on conversion to Christianity: online from Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A multidisciplinary approach to the presentation, investigation and prosecution: online event in Clinical Legal and Forensic Medicine series
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
SLSA York 2022: call for posters: extended and early bird registration open
LSA Global Meeting 2022, hybrid conference, online and Lisbon, Portugal
Mental Capacity in the Context of Sexual Relationships and Intimacy, Keele University
2022
January
'Race Against the Machine: Febrile Politics and Stasis Criminology'
Date: 19 January 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department
Speaker: Professor Coretta Phillips
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
Problematising Children’s Rights – Insights from Israel/Palestine
Date: 19 January 2022
Venue: online from University of Oxford
Speaker: Dr Hedi Viterbo, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London
See website for details.
The Future of Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Book launch
Date: 24 January 2022
Venue: online from University of Essex
Speakers: Prof Peter Menell (UC Berkeley, School of Law), Prof Pina D'Agostino (York University, Osgoode Hall Law School), Prof Stavroula Karapapa (University of Essex, School of Law).
Responding: Dr Aviv Gaon (Reichman University, Harry Radzyner Law School).
See announcement for full details.
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A multidisciplinary approach to the presentation, investigation and prosecution
Date: 22 January 2022
Venue: online event in Clinical Legal and Forensic Medicine series
See website for details.
The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia
Date: 24 January 2022
Venue: online from Centre for Socio-Legal Studies,Oxford
Speaker: Lynette Rose, Yale NUS College, Singapore
See website for details.
February
Legal Aid Without Lawyers: How Boston’s nonlawyers delivered and shaped justice for the poor, 1878–1922
Date: 2 February 2022
Venue: online from Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Speaker: Kelsea Jeon
See website for details.
Rethinking Work and the Carceral State
Date: 3 February 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department
Speaker: Dr Jon Burnett (and Professor Avery Gordon as discussant)
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
Finding the True Convert: Tensions between church and state in asylum appeal hearings based on conversion to Christianity
Date: 7 February 2022
Venue: online from Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Speaker: Lena Rose, University of Oxford
See website for details.
A Modern Bill of Rights?: online JUSTICE members' event
Date: 10 February 2022
Venue: online from JUSTICE
Chair: Sir Michael Tugendhat
See website for details.
Sir Richard Arnold Westminster Law School Annual Lecture 2022
Date: 15 February 2022
Venue: University of Westminster, Little Titchfield Street, London
Guest speaker: Sir Richard Arnold
See website for details of this free event.
March
Racialised Constructions of Punishability in Sentencing Hearings for 'Unwanted' Migrants
Date: 24 March 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department
Speaker: Dr Gemma Lousley
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
April
Climate Change and the Rule of Law Conference
Dates: 31 March–1 April 2022
Venue: UCL Centre for Law and the Environment, University College London
Please see announcement for further details.
SLSA Annual Conference 2022: registration now open
Dates: 6–8 April 2022
Venue: York Law School, University of York and online
See website for details. Note that the call for posters has been extended and is still open.
White Terror: On the far right, counterterrorism and the racialisation of violence
Date: 28 April 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department.
Speaker: Dr Aaron Winter
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
May
McGill Graduate Law Conference: call for submissions
Dates: 5–6 May 2022
Venue: online and McGill University Montreal, Canada
Theme: (Legal) Adaptation
See announcement and website for details. Closing date: 13 February 2022.
Workshop on Gender, Equality and Care: call for papers
Date: 20 May 2022
Venue: online and University of Southampton
Organised by the Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and the Law. See website for details. Call closes: 18 February 2022.
Mental Capacity in the Context of Sexual Relationships and Intimacy
Date: 23 May 2022
Venue: Keele Hall, Keele University
Further details will be announced in due course. This is an SLSA-sponsored event under our Seminar Scheme.
Decolonizing Postcolonialism and the Case of Kashmir
Date: 26 May 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department
Speaker: Dr Ather Zia
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
June
Racialized Swarming, Sacralized Politics, and Criminal Penetratabilities: Occupied Jerusalem, and settler colonial Israel: online from Birkbeck
Date: 2 June 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department
Speaker: Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
Too Big to Convict? Corporate Criminal Liability – Challenges and Solutions: call for papers
Date: 7 June 2022
Venue: online event hosted by University of Derby in partnership with UWE,
University of Portsmouth, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and London Centre for Commercial and Financial Law
Please see announcement for details. Call closes: 11 February 2022.
W G Hart Workshop 2022: call for papers
Dates: 9–10 June 2022
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Theme: Responding to the Crises: Law, alternative economies and activism
See website for details. Call closes: 31 January 2022.
Surveillance, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Florence: call for papers
Dates: 8–10 June 2022
Venue: European University Institute, Florence
This event is jointly organsied by the University of Portsmouth and European University Institute. Please see announcement for details. Closing date: 28 February 2022.
Blackscapes: Urban precarity, state violence and insurgent politics in a zone of nonbeing
Date: 30 June 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminolgoy Department
Speaker: Dr Jamie Amparo Alves
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
July
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2022: call for papers
Date: July 2022 tbc
LSA Global Meeting 2022, hybrid conference, online and Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: 13–16 July 2022
Venue: ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Theme: 'Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy'
Please visit website for details. The SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event.
November
SAFESOC Death in Prisons Conference, Oxford
Dates: 2–3 November 2022
Venue: Oxford
See SAFESOC website for details in due course.
2023
May
23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023: call for papers
Dates: 24–27 May 2023
Venue: hosted online by Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
Please note that this event was originally scheduled to take place in May 2021. See announcement for full details. Closing date: 6 January 2023.
June
WG Hart Workshop 2023: Call for workshop proposals and the nomination of Academic Directors
Date: tbc
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
See announcement for details. Call for proposals closes: 28 February 2022.